Four Dharmas of Longchenpa

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Four Dharmas of Longchenpa

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I tuned into a Dzogchen Community webcast around new year's 2008 on the topic of Longchenpa's Four Dharmas. I didn't take careful enough notes on how to track down the root text for this teaching. Can anyone point me toward the correct document? has it been translated into legible English?

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Re: Four Dharmas of Longchenpa

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1 Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?

2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.

3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.

4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.


1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
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Re: Four Dharmas of Longchenpa

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that must be it. Thank you Astus.
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Re: Four Dharmas of Longchenpa

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It's a great little book. There's an edition out there from about thirty-five years ago if you can find it, called "Four-Themed Precious Garland" that has Dudjom Rinpoche and Beru Khyentse's commentary.
(Kagyu lamrim teaching, used by Longchenpa to lay out dzogchen.)
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Re: Four Dharmas of Longchenpa

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If it's commentary on Gampopa's Four Dharmas you're looking for, but not from a Dzokchen POV, check out Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche's recent teachings at the SF Kagyu Monlam. This was the topic of his teaching sessions over the three day period, and the teachings are being posted at http://www.californiakagyumonlam.org/in ... &Itemid=72
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།


"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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